David Kantor replied very fully to Dimitriy Masterov.
I just want to underscore his theme: if you are
writing your own programs in Stata, getting to
grips with -syntax- is a top priority.
As a footnote, the number of variables can also
be obtained by
program myprog
version 8
syntax varlist
di "The number of variables is `: word count `varlist''"
end
Nick
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